Andrew R. Davis
Reconstructing the Temple
The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel
Gebonden Engels 2019 9780190868963Levertijd ± 11 werkdagen
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This book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in the rhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of recent history and to associate their reigns with an earlier and more illustrious past.
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ISBN13:9780190868963
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:240
Uitgever:OUP USA
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